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Bash Reference

I started to write a Bash reference table, but there’s no way I could do a better job than these resources. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do:

Rosetta Stone CLI: Write the Same Option Parser Script in Bash, Python, and Node.js

To really appreciate what a language does for you, it helps to compare it to other languages. Then you can see how (differently) common tasks are done. In this fun little exercise, we’ll write the same option parser script in multiple languages.

Read an SQL Query From a File and Run It on Startup of a Spring Boot App

This is useful when you need to check the output of an SQL query on startup of a Spring Boot app. There are no template literal strings in Java 11, so for maintainability, the multi-line query is read from a file.

Git Reference

A living doc of handy git commands.

Write Your Own Short and Long Option Parser in Bash

This article has been merged into Rosetta Stone CLI: Write the Same Option Parser Script in Bash, Python, and Node.js.

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